Amazing feature-film Magellan is shot on the Panasonic GH7

[Davide DB]

20 hours ago, Danyyyel said:

The irony, for the last two decades we have been pursuing feverously the vista vision look. One by one, years passing by we got large sensor, better codec, even raw and just as we got affordable anamorphic lens, it is now cool to film in 4;3 SD tv format. LOL

I've just watched Train Dreams and it's 1,46:1 🙂

 

[Clark Nikolai]

On 11/26/2025 at 3:05 PM, Andrew Reid said:

What has happened is the gap between the top-end i.e. ARRI and the cheap stuff has closed up.

This has been going on ever since the start of the DSLR revolution so it's not a new thing but there's never been a smaller gap that exists now, for example between something like the Alexa 35 and a $1000 used Panasonic S1H.

It once was that the pros had 16mm an 35mm film and the "amateurs" had Super 8 and videotape. Now that's all changed.

Yesterday I was capturing some old videotapes from a friend's project that we did in 2011 on a Canon HV20. It looked amazing. I was expecting it to look worse than cameras of today but it doesn't. Just shows that even a camera from then, with a CMOS chip from that era, MPEG 2 encoding, 4:2:0 chroma subsampling, 1440 x 1080 frame size recorded of the wide screen image, and 8 bit colour, it still can look amazing. 

It just shows that cameras have been very good for a long time now. The differences are mostly ergonomics and physical size. When deciding on a camera, you have to consider what you want to spend months living with.

[fuzzynormal]

2 hours ago, Clark Nikolai said:

CMOS chip from that era, MPEG 2 encoding, 4:2:0 chroma subsampling, 1440 x 1080 frame size recorded of the wide screen image, and 8 bit colour, it still can look amazing. 

Best footage I ever shot in my life was on a XH-A1.  It was the situation and lighting, not the camera.  Could it have been better with a new 4K-whatever-camera?  Sure!  But only marginally so.